Difference between revisions of "Zone"

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Introduction

Zones are places you can go, containing NPCs (monsters and/or friendlies) and items. They are usually entered by traveling to a specific point on the wilderness map. They contain one or more levels (maps) connected to each other by stairs.

Items left on the ground of a level may vanish when you leave that level. There are currently three known exceptions: anything in a vault; the storage chamber of the Sher'Tul Fortress; and the special vault zone in the Embers of Rage campaign.

The denizens and objects in a zone scale to your level when you enter the zone, subject to a minimum (floor) and maximum (ceiling) defined for each zone. The level of enemies also increases by 1 for every level/depth (so Dreadfell 5 is 4 levels higher than Dreadfell 1).

A common trick for some of the tougher zones was to enter them early in order to set the level scaling to a low value, run away, and come back later when you're higher level (or otherwise stronger). Starting in version 1.5.0, this now only sets the level scaling for the floor you entered, and does not affect any other floors of the zone, limiting its effectiveness.

Some zones are towns, which may have buildings (stores) as well as (primarily) non-hostile NPCs.

If you are a newer player, you may wish to read this general guide to the zone order.

Continents

The world of Eyal has three (known) continents: Maj'Eyal (West), Var'Eyal (the Far East) and Tar'Eyal (South).

Players in the main campaign begin on the continent of Maj'Eyal. Var'Eyal (the Far East) becomes accessible from the end of Reknor.

Players in Embers of Rage start on an island off of the main continent of Var'Eyal. Access to the main continent of Var'Eyal becomes possible mid-way through the Embers of Rage campaign.

The continent of Tar'Eyal cannot be explored at the moment, but may become its own campaign at a later date.

This is an old, out of date map, but interesting still: http://te4.org/w/images/6/6b/Eyal2.png.

Main Campaign Zones

Some zones in the Age of Ascendancy campaign have a "normal" and "alternate" zone layout, one of which is chosen at random each game, which affects which terrain and NPCs appear in the zone. These zones are:

• The Tier 1 zones (the Heart of the Gloom, the Murgol Lair, Norgos' Lair, the Rhaloren Camp, the Ruins of Kor'Pul, the Scintillating Caves, and the Trollmire).
  • The class/race-specific zones don't have alternate layouts, except for the Murgol Lair.
• The Tier 2 zones (the Daikara, The Maze, the Old Forest, and the Sandworm Lair).
  • Reached from the Old Forest, the Lake of Nur.

Alternate zones can only appear if either you have seen the normal zone before, or you have defeated The Master and earned the Vampire Crusher achievement before. For some alternate Tier 1 zones, there is an additional requirement, that you have killed at least one Tier 1 Guardian on your current character. (Note that the Heart of the Gloom, the Murgol Lair, and the Ruins of Kor'Pul do not have the Tier 1 requirement.) Both of these requirements are waived if you are using Developer Mode. ^{Source:tome/mod/class/GameState.lua} The Ruined Dungeon also uses the Tier 1 alternate zone code to decide which puzzle to use. If a zone is eligible to be its alternate layout, then the alternate layout has a 50% chance to be used if the zone has the Tier 1 requirement, or a 1-in-3 chance if it does not. ^{Needs verification}

Ashes of Urh'Rok Expansion Zones

Embers of Rage Campaign Zones

Forbidden Cults Expansion Zones

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